Ph.D. student Diana Lopez receives LEAD graduate student excellence award

On April 3, the UC Irvine Office of Inclusive Excellence, alongside the Latinx Resource Center and Graduate Division, hosted the eighth annual Latino Excellence and Achievement Awards Dinner (LEAD). LEAD honors graduate students, staff and faculty who support and champion student success and research excellence in the Hispanic and Latinx community at UCI. Diana Lopez, a fourth-year Ph.D.

Professor James Nowick selected as the recipient of the 2024 Biopolymers Murray Goodman Memorial Prize

Congratulations to Professor James Nowick on being selected as the recipient of the 2024 Biopolymers Murray Goodman Memorial Prize!  The honor recognizes Professor Nowick’s seminal contributions to biochemistry and chemical biology, elucidating fundamental interactions that govern protein structure, stability, folding and mechanisms. The award will be presented to Professor Nowick at a symposium in his honor at the ACS Fall 2025 National Meeting as part of the Division's program. 

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Professor Arguilla named named a runner-up for the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship Award!

Professor Maxx Arguilla was named one of two runners-up for Journal of Materials Chemistry (RSC) Lectureship Award. The Journal of Materials Chemistry has been recognizing outstanding early career researchers in the community since 2010.

The feature and interview can be found here.

Undergraduate Chemistry Student Makayla Luevano receives Honorable Mention for ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award for Undergraduate Research

The ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award for Undergraduate Research recognizes the collaborative research of an outstanding student/preceptor team in the field of inorganic chemistry. As an honorable mention team, Makayla Luevano and Dr. Evans have been invited to submit an abstract and present a talk at the Undergraduate Research at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry, INOR-sponsored symposium, at the upcoming ACS meeting in San Diego.

UCI Chemistry Welcomes Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Kimberly Daas

Dr. Kimberly J. Daas has recently joined the UCI Chemistry Department as a Dr. Feizal Waffarn Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow and she will be staying with us for the next two years. She will work with Professor Kieron Burke on enhancing density functional theory using modern methods, especially furthering our understanding of semiclassics and ensemble DFT. She recently defended her PhD thesis at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she worked in the group of Professor Paola Gori-Giorgi.

Professor Arguilla selected as a finalist in the Dream Chemistry Award

Professor Maxx Arguilla has been selected as one of the five finalists for the 2024 Dream Chemistry Award! The Dream Chemistry Award was established in 2013 by the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IChF-PAN) with the aim of supporting young talents in pursuing their scientific dreams. Since 2017, the contest has been co-organized by the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague), with the final alternating between Prague and Warsaw.

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